Unbelievable. How is something like that even allowed?? It's so completely transparent. I've been hearing TONS of stories about how the athletes believe that Russians have been getting preferential treatment, and have been cheating across a lot of different events throughout these Games (i.e. tinkering with the temperatures in the Sliding Center). It's a complete travashamockery.
Here's what some commentators and figure stars had to say about today. Katarina Witt (German Figure Skater) "Shame Gold Medal, Yuna Kim is a real queen" Bill Plaschke (American Sports Journalist) "Kim didn't win...unbelievable...scandal written all over this...Russian Sotnikova wins, fans going crazy, Kim disappears, wrong, wrong" Alex Goldberger (Olympics Researcher at NBC) "Adelina Sotnikova was excellent tonight, but Yuna Kim was robbed" Terra Findlay (Canadian ice dancer) "I'm speechless. Yuna Kim, you are a queen" NBC Olympics (Official Twitter) "Yuna Kim wins Silver. 17 year old Sotnikova wins Gold, and Kostner wins bronze. Do you agree with the results?" ESPN Official Website News Article titled "Home Cooking", "Home-Ice Advantage" CBC Commentary: "That's a shock...Did you see that coming" (of Sotnikova winning) "Well I think I saw a medal coming, I'm just not sure we thought it was going to be that one" "As caught up in the moment as I was... I'm still stuck on quality of skating that Yuna Kim has, and the moments where you see jarring images during Sotnikova that she's not ready yet ...The judges have their job and I really look forward to looking at it again so I can see it with fresh eyes but yes I am sitting here a little stunned" New York Times: "Comparing the Jumps of Sotnikova and Yu-na" included rating of Sotnikova's Triple Flip and Double axel as "Poor" in the free program and Yu-na's ratings consisted of Good only. BBC Commentary predicted gold for Yuna near the end of her LP and were also dismayed when the scores came out. Apparently, Italian Commentary were predicting 150+ score for Yuna and they were pissed. (http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/sh...Network-commentators-NBC-CBC-BBC-etc&p=865283) Add to the list: Phil Hersh (Chicago Tribune, http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...re-skating-gold-medal-20140220,0,863440.story) and Jamie Sale (from the Canadian pairs that had the Salt Lake City 2002 controversy
Relevant: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...e-skating-women-yuna-kim-gracie-gold/5643143/ TL/DR: "Judges from the United States and South Korea, as well as two other Western judges, were not chosen by draw to work the women's long program after being on the women's short program panel the night before. Two of their replacements were Ukrainian Yuri Balkov, who was kicked out of judging for a year after being tape-recorded trying to fix the Nagano ice dancing competition by a Canadian judge, and Alla Shekhovtseva, a Russian judge who is married to the Russian federation's president."
I'm just saying. I was watching with my mom while I was waiting for the Rockets and after seeing Kim's score, I wondered... that wasn't a gold-medal performance? <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Russians needed a champion after last night's hockey debacle, they got one..at expense of Korea...How can leader skate perfect and lose?.</p>— Bill Plaschke (@BillPlaschke) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillPlaschke/statuses/436575399502700544">February 20, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Yuna Kim 2010 vs Adelina Sotnikova 2014 [videos] https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=650911831643976 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=535404613239777 Context: Yuna Kim shattered the world record for the Free Skate receiving 150.06. Adelina Sotnikova nearly broke that record today, receiving 149.95. Yuna Kim received a score of 144.19 today, no mistakes, smooth jumps and landings. Adelina Sotnikova wobbly landings and not nearly as smooth. Adelina Sotnikova received a score 5.76 points higher than Yuna Kim. EDIT:: Yuna Kim's final/retirement performance. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=598152920274335 Despite the immense pressure weighing on her shoulders, coming back out of retirement at the request of her country's citizens, think Michael Phelps or Usain Bolt coming out of retirement to defend their gold medal; I'm just glad she didn't drop the ball and "lose" the gold medal. She can keep her head high and move on without regrets and live her life. She will still be a major star and celebrity in Korea after her career. Still a travesty. As an on-looker, you can't help but feel sorry this happened to her on the final performance of her career. Robbed of the gold medal.
Really didnt care for much of the winter olympics...but man that chick from SKorea was totally jobbed. The Russians look really bad internationally...as everyone is ripping on the results.
This. At least there needs to be some sort of rule put in that a judge from the same country as the skater can't judge that skater.
I have no idea how figure skating can be rated objectively. It is not like basketball whenever the ball goes into the hole, you get point(s). Hell even if it is basketball, if the score is as high as 149 to 145, there will definitely be a few controversial points. It's like a dance, how do you objectively rate a dance?
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